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Life, Animated(2016)
Status: Released
Date: 2016-07-01
74%
142 Votes
Time: 1h 31m
When he fell into silence, movies gave him back his voice
Overview:
At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind ceased to speak, disappearing into autism with apparently no way out. Almost four years passed and the only stimuli that engaged Owen were Disney films. Then one day, his father donned a puppet—Iago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin—and asked “what’s it like to be you?” And poof! Owen replied, with dialogue from the movie. Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Roger Ross Williams Productions
Movie: Life, Animated
Top 4 Billed Cast
Owen Suskind
Himself
Ron Suskind
Himself
Jonathan Freeman
Himself
Gilbert Gottfried
Himself
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